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To: Cronos; montag813; MBT ARJUN; All
Median income of a Jewish -American family is $54,000 per annum, close to the Indian-American $65,000.

This is almost certainly not an accurate comparison.

You are comparing outdated demographic information - that is at least 8 years old - about American Jews, to up-to-date demographic information about Asian-Indians living in America.

The link you provided takes one to a webpage of the Jewish Federations of North America. That is certainly a reliable, authoritative source, but the actual data referred to on that webpage is found on a link therein, which in turn takes one to a pdf document in the form of a study entitled "THE NATIONAL JEWISH POPULATION SURVEY 2000-01, STRENGTH, CHALLENGE AND DIVERSITY IN THE AMERICAN JEWISH POPULATION". On the bottom of the title page of the linked pdf document ones finds "Updated January 2004 see downloadable Errata for corrections from original edition".

Thus, the data you cite regarding Jewish demographics is at least 8 years old.

In contrast, the newspaper article regarding Asian-Indians that is the basis for this thread ( 'Indian Americans ahead of all other ethnic minorities in US,' Hindustan Times, June 23, 2012" ) refers to a new study by the Pew Research Center "released on Tuesday" (i.e., June 19, 2012) which "uses existing data and new survey".

35 posted on 06/23/2012 6:47:49 AM PDT by leebee vmizrach
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To: leebee vmizrach

Yes, that’s right. The comparative average income number for all whites is $54K in this study—certainly Jewish Americans come in above that average.


44 posted on 06/23/2012 11:47:26 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: leebee vmizrach

true enough, but I couldn’t find any newer data on Jewish-Americans. In fact, I would expect the median income to be lower in 2012 compared to 2004


75 posted on 06/25/2012 6:52:06 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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